Opening Night: Late Fame
The latest feature from Kent Jones (former director of the New York Film Festival) is a gently piercing dramedy about ambition, obscurity, and the echoes of youthful dreams. Ed Saxberger […]
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Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Opening Night: The Invite
Castro Theatre 429 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesNothing is off limits in Olivia Wilde’s (Booksmart, Festival 2019) taboo-smashing third feature where two San Francisco couples find themselves traversing surprising boundaries of intimacy and relationships. When his wife […]
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Shorts Block 5: Family Films
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesFrom intergalactic cardboard adventures to magical whales, stubborn staircases, and unexpected animal mishaps, this delightful collection of short films celebrates imagination, resilience, and the connections that bring us together. Animation […]
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Renoir
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSet in late-80s suburban Tokyo, 11-year-old Fuki is thrust into adolescence by the harsh realities surrounding her parents. Her father Kenji (Lily Franky) is suffering from a terminal illness, and […]
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The Wages of Fear
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesStranded in South America with no jobs and no money, four men risk their lives for a big payday when they agree to drive two trucks full of nitroglycerine to […]
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Time and Water
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIcelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love, Festival 2022) luminous documentary, Magnason confronts the disappearance of his country’s ice while preserving the stories of his grandparents, intertwining personal history with vanishing landscapes. Drawing […]
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Hair, Paper, Water…
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCao Thị Hậu and her family live in Vietnam surrounded by rolling green hills enveloped in mist. Here, she sits with her grandchildren tending to their pains and spinning stories […]
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The World of Love
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesBoisterous, mischievous, and seemingly unassailable, Lee Joo-in is the master of her world. Whether dancing with classmates, sparring with her charismatic brother and devoted mother (Parasite’s Jang Hye-jin), or sharing […]
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Risa and the Wind Phone
Marina Theatre 2149 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn abandoned telephone booth calls out to 10-year-old Risa. After a tragic fire devastates their small town, residents take to calling the dead on an out-of-order telephone high atop a […]
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Joybubbles
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn extraordinary man deserves an extraordinary documentary, and director Rachael J. Morrison delivers exactly that with this lively portrait of Josef Carl Engressia, also known as Joybubbles. In the era […]
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Blue Heron
BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA masterful debut, this depiction of a young girl whose family is contending with a challenging older sibling weaves autobiographical and documentary elements seamlessly into a singularly poignant package. Sasha’s […]
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Cookie Queens
Premier Theater at One Letterman 1 Letterman Dr # B, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAra, Shannon Elizabeth, Nikki, and Olive live by the mantra, “Sell! Sell! Sell!” Each Girl Scout in this diverse group has her own sales goal to reach or maybe even […]